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1 results foundAuthor: Green, T.J. Title: Compliance Program Evaluation and Optimisation in Commercial and Recreational Western Australian Fisheries Summary: This project describes work undertaken in the field of fisheries compliance. The word “compliance” in this work always refers to conformity with regulations, sometimes it expresses a quantitative measure of that conformity, at other times it refers more generally to the subject of delivering services to ensure compliance. Compliance (in either sense) has received relatively little formal study from the sciences, which is, perhaps, surprising, when considering how integral compliance is to the normal functioning of human society. Formal studies of compliance are most likely to be encountered in the fields of taxation, environmental law and governance, but any agency with enforcement responsibilities will tend to use the term compliance in its sense of delivering compliance services. In the field of natural resource management, fisheries management in particular, it is increasingly necessary to establish frameworks that restrict exploitation rates to limits that can be tolerated indefinitely by the entire system being considered, as part of a wider quest for sustainability. The resources required for ‘policing’ these frameworks are expensive, especially in a fisheries context where the areas to be policed are extensive, the platforms required specialised and there is potential for large-scale offences to go entirely undetected. Most measures of compliance are expressions of the number of offences detected out of the number of inspections. Such an approach may be flawed because many compliance inspections target areas where non-compliance is likely to be found, especially if voluntary compliance is the norm and compliance resources are scarce. The number of offences detected from such targeted inspections will likely be higher than those that would be detected from a random inspection program, yielding a disproportionately large number of detected offences per inspection. This project examines the design, implementation and uptake of a simple reporting system that can be established to capture details of fisheries compliance patrol activity, and some selected data from it. From the data captured, the number of detected offences are linked with the number of fishers contacted to provide non-compliance rates for entire individual fisheries. These non-compliance rates can help managers and researchers assess whether the levels of illegal fishing within a fishery are acceptable or not. The enforcement arm of the agency can use these non-compliance rates as clear performance measures that can be scrutinised by themselves and others, and in an operational environment where priorities often have to be adjusted in the light of unforeseen circumstances, such measures provide accountable tools to assist with making changes that have the most positive impact overall. Fisheries management is always a balancing act, but using the data systems described in this project, some of the guesswork should be replaced by informed decision-making based on quantitative data. Details: North Beach, Western Australia: Western Australia Department of Fisheries, 2009. 128p. Source: Internet Resource: Fisheries Research Report No. 195: Accessed February 14, 2012 at: http://www.fish.wa.gov.au/docs/frr/frr195/frr195.pdf Year: 2009 Country: Australia URL: http://www.fish.wa.gov.au/docs/frr/frr195/frr195.pdf Shelf Number: 124127 Keywords: Illegal Fishing (Australia)Wildlife Crime |